Runaway Future

Interesting little follow up:

Less then a year after starting a chapter here in Halifax, the Guardian Angels have faded away on the local scene, both from sight and from any new news.

So at the end of last month, Rick Howe got in touch with Angels’ founder, Curtis Sliwa to get a bit of an update. Turns out things are going too well:

I had a chat the other day with Curtis Sliwa, the founder and chief mouthpiece for the Guardian Angels. Folks have been wondering why they haven’t seen much of the red satin jackets and berets wandering the streets of Halifax since the big hoopla over their plans to set up a chapter here. Sliwa says they’ve got 8 volunteers trained and patrolling now but for a variety of reasons the patrols are limited to the Halifax Common on Wednesday night’s. Pizza corner in downtown Halifax is in lockdown now according to Sliwa, who says he’s pleased with the police response to the downtown rowdiness. He says he’d like to expand his group’s patrols, but needs more volunteers first. {Link}

So from the sounds of it, there’s not even enough interest to do more then a cursory effort. Seems the saviours of Halifax are no more then cardboard deep.